Subglandular-to-Subpectoral Conversion with Mastopexy: The Four-Step Approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Because of the multiplying number of patients undergoing breast augmentation, nonprimary augmentation mastopexy will be increasingly requested in the future; this operation represents an even more significant challenge than primary augmentation mastopexy. The authors describe a standardized approach for subglandular-to-subpectoral implant pocket conversion in mastopexy that provides a tight neopocket with inferolateral muscular support, which minimizes implant displacement complications and allows operative strategies to reduce the risk of bacterial load on implants.

Methods

The authors' technique proposes the following: (1) modified subpectoral pocket, with muscular inferolateral support for the implant; (2) independent approaches to the submuscular pocket and su

SUBMITTER: Ono MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8781234 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature